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Friday, August 27, 2010

Congratulations Sue!!!

I wanted to give a big congrats to Sue, she was the winner of this week's Massacre Theater on the podcast Filmspotting!

She even mentioned it on this blog this week and how they did a scene from To Kill A Mockingbird in the comments and low and behold-- she happened to be the winner!For those that aren't familiar, this is actually a very popular and well acclaimed Podcast and is produced by the same producer of "This American Life" and is also recorded in Chicago probably on the same radio station and has something to do with NPR, but I honestly don't know enough about that world- but Cat and Sue do. (I am just saying, this is no fly-by-night podcast with 100 listeners or something- it's the big time).

It's a good movie review podcast, they review one new movie, they do Massacre Theater, they also do top 5 lists, and movie marathons- where over a span of episodes, they watch a different movie from a specific group each time and discuss it, then at the end they do a little award ceremony kind of thing- it's kind of fun. (Their latest movie marathon just ended where they did Billy Wilder movies).

Massacre Theater is a little segment that they do every week -not unlike WTB-. But what they do is they take a little scene from a movie and they act it out, but instead of reading it like the character's do, they throw you a little by say- if it is a movie where the character's feature a heavy Southern drawl, they play it like Italian gangsters or something, or they will read a woman's voice like a crusty old man- which can REALLY throw you off.

Anyway congrats Sue!!! They did mess up where she is from, they said Kearns, Ohio- but she got a correction in the show description and Adam puts the mistake entirely on his shoulders. (If you are curious, it is episode #314, reviewing "Animal Kingdom".) She wins her choice of any DVD from AFI's 100 greatest films.

Hmmm...... perhaps she could choose this week's wtb, it is pretty high on that list...........

6 comments:

Waytogo, Sue. This is all new to me. I don't even know what a podcast is and how to get one if I wanted to. To win anything is fun and to do it on a big scale is double fun. Nice! William Wilder, huh! Reminds me of the wtb movie of the week.

whoo hoo! I'm pretty excited I won! It's only the second time I've sent in a guess. The other time I sent in Rambo: True Blood and the correct movie was Rambo: True Blood Part II. Whatever. I actually get to pick a movie from the website deepdiscount.com I can get any movie up to $25.00! I am NOT getting Dances with Wolves! I haven't decided what I'm going to get yet. They have the Criterion release of Short Cuts, I might get that. They also have a collection of 50 horror B movies from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Booker and I love those, I have a collection of 10 of them, and he and I watch them when he is here, but this one has 50! One of them is called The Severed Arm, that is awesome.

Amy the movie was To Kill A Mockingbird, it's like in the first sentence of Em's post.

Fun that you're getting an education on podcasts, George. They are awesome. I'm actually going to be taking over one of Mormonism's biggest podcasts next month. I'll be hosting Mormon Stories. My first three planned ones are on the Mark Hofmann bombing murders and all that intrigue; Eugene England and his relevance for today; and an interview with Richard Dutcher. I will end up producing two big ones per month, plus host a panel discussion on what's happening in Mormonism that month. And then a very cool Mormon therapist is going to produce the other show each month on various topics related to psychological and sexual health and any issues in these areas that Mormonism has unique angles on or for which it sometimes falls short, etc. Looking forward to this new adventure...